linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.25.17

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0809081619410.12154@chaos.analogic.com>
Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:24:08 -0400
From:	"linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@...logic.com>
To:	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	"Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"Linux kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, <stable@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25.17

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Alan Cox wrote:

>> If I remove one of the CPUs, there is no file-system corruption
>> so I fear that there is some lock missing somewhere in the
>> serial ATA driver code (ata_piix or sata_sil).
>
> All the logic and locking is in the core code so would show up on all
> sorts of boxes. You say you are using sata_sil - is this on an Nvidia
> board ?
>
>> If anybody has anything to test with my setup, I can readily
>> test both with and without the two CPUs.
>
> Can you duplicate this with the drives just on the ata_piix ?
>
> Alan
>

The drives are on the ata_piix. I have no clue why the 'install'
added the sata_sil driver because I have never used on on this
machine! I note thet /etc/modprobe.conf has an alias for it so
at one time a Fedora install thought it found one!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.25.17 on an i686 machine (4786.48 BogoMips).
My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
_

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